Nventor



(No ModeL) J. H; OHRISTMAN. BOTTLE STOPPER.

No. 409,922. I Patented Aug. 27, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. OI'IRISTMAN, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO LEWIS H. REDFIELD, OF SAME PLACE. I

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 409,922, dated August 27, 1889.

Application filed May 6, 1889. Serial No. 309,700. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. CHRISTMAN, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Stoppers, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to the class of bottle- IO stoppers in which the stopper is hung on a cam pivoted to abail which is connected to the bottle.

The object of this invention is, first, to simplify and facilitate the attachment of the bail to the bottle; secondly, to allow the bail to be readily removed from a broken bottle and applied on another bottle; thirdly, to dispense with the wire by means of which the bail has hitherto been connected to the bottle; fourth- 2o ly, to lock the stopper more securely in its position over the mouth of the bottle, and, fifthly, to render the stopper attachment more durable and more efficient generally; and to that end the invention consists in an improved construction and combination of parts, as hereinafted fully described, and set forth in the claims.

In the annexed drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are respectively front and side views of my improved bottle-stopper. Fig. 3 is a side view showing the same applied to a jar; and Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse sectioirof that portion of a bottle to which my invention is applied.

Similar letters of reference indicate cone 3 5 sponding parts.

A denotes a bottle of any ordinary form, usually formed with the head A, of increased thickness around the mouth of the bottle. This head of the bottle I provide at opposite 4o sides of its exterior with sockets a 0.,which may be either drilled therein or formed in the process of the manufacture of the bottle.

2) represents a stout wire bail, whichI form in one piece, and consequently with the rigid cross-bar which is integral with the side arms, by which latter it is pivoted directly to the bottle by bending the extremities of the side arms of the bail at right angles toward each other in the shape of trunnions t t, which are inserted into the sockets co a by prying the two arms of the bail apart and slipping them onto the head A, so as to bring the trunnions in range with the sockets, and then by releasing the arms of the bail they automatically spring toward the head A and force the 5 5 trunnions into the aforesaid sockets.

0 represents the stopper, which is provided with a metal cap having an eye h, by which it is hinged to a cam c, pivoted at right angles to the bail b, said cam having integral with it the lever cl for operatingit. This cam and its lever is formed in one piece of a stout wire, which is coiled around the cross-bar of the bail b at two places, preferably nearthe arms of the bail, as shown at c c. The int-ermediate portion of said wire is bent into the shape of an offset which constitutes the cam c. Said offset portion of the wire passing through the eye it on the stopper connects the latter to the cam. The lever (Z is formed of an exten- 7o sion of the aforesaid wire bent so as' to lie along the side of one of the arms of the bail Z). The extremity of said extension I bend laterally, as shown at e, and preferably also into the shape of a loop Z.

The lateral bend e forms a catch which is adapted to interlock with the lower end of one of the arms of the bail b, so as to retain the lever d in its depressed position and thus hold the stopper more securely on the mouth of the bottle. The lever d has suflicient elasticity to spring aside and allow the catch e to pass across the arm of the bail and engage the rear side thereof, as illustrated by full lines in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings. The loop Z serves as a thumb-piece to facilitate the operation of throwing the lever (1 into and out of its aforesaid interlocking engagement with the arm of the bail. I

WVhen my invention is to be applied to a jar, I employ a wire of sufficient length to form two levers (6 cl at opposite ends, to engage with both arms of the bail, as illustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawings.

Having described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with the bottle and its stopper, of a bail formed with a rigid crossbar integral with the arms of the bail, a cam 10o pivoted at right angles and at two points, respectively, at the end portions of said crossbar, and a lever extending from one of the pivotal portions of the cam down along one of the arms of the bail and adapted to interlock 'With said arm at the side of the bottle, substantially as described and shown.

2. The combination, with the bottle and its stopper, of a bail pivoted to the bottle, a cam pivoted to said bail and connected to the stopper, and a lever attached to said cam and having its free end adapted to interlock with one of the arms of the bail, as set forth and shown.

3. The combination, with the bottle and its stopper, of a bail pivoted to the bottle and a Wire wound around the cross-bar of the bail at opposite sides of the center of its length and bent intermediately into an offset and connected thereby to the stopper, and one end of said Wire extended along the side of one of the arms of the aforesaid bail and terminated with a lateral bend adapted to interlock with said arm of the bail, substantially as described and shown.

4:. The improved bottle-stopper attachment consisting of the bottle formed with the sockets a a, the bail b, having its ends inserted in said sockets, a wire wound into coils c 0, cmbracing the cross-bar of the bail and bent intermediately into the shape of the oitset c, and having the extension d along the side of one of the arms of the bail and terminating with the lateral bend 6, adapted to interlock with said arm of the bail, and the stopper 0, hung on the aforesaid offset 0, substantially as described and shown.

In testimony whereof I have hereuntosigned my name this tth day of May, 1889.

JOHN H. OHRISTMAN. [1 s.]

\Vitnesses:

O. H. DUELL, H. M. SEAMoNs. 

